Recent content by MikeM

I know, shocking. Completely unrelated, but Berry, we met last week at the Sunderland Business Network event - I knew I had been talking to someone from your company about the in's and outs of the internet, but it was only when I went back through my business card collection when I spotted your...

Thought I'd pop this in here so we could all hopefully help each other to save a few quid here and there. From reading Gregs post on domain name companies, I see a few people (including myself) use Godaddy - so, if anyone knows of any discount codes, it'd be great if we could share them here...

It looks like something that *could* have been going in the right direction, but then it all went to hell. Those gradients are painful and I'm really not digging the grey they've used (although I have a feeling that, on cans, that may be metallic silver - not sure if that makes it better or worse).

For the text it just looks like it's a solid white drop-shadow - set blending effect to normal, size to 0, angle to 90, distance to 1 or 2, and tinker with the opacity.

I still maintain that the best thing you can do for (internal/on-site) SEO is to have a well coded website (since many facets of coding to XHTML Strict standard go hand in hand with SEO best practices) and good quality content. There are a whole bunch of other legitimate things you can do to...

I actually have, although I'm going to have to try not to gush too much about it! I would say it has probably been the best business decision I've made. Straight off the bat I had referrals and work from the group members themselves, and fulfilling those jobs helped to build my reputation up...

I the defence of BNI (I'm a very active member of a local group) the "code of conduct" (code of ethics) doesn't say a thing about you having to use the services of other members - although this seems to be a common misconception among people I've spoken to who were once considering joining. The...

I've been kicking myself for the past 8 months after allowing myself to be talked into this utter waste of money. £500 for a one year ad, and I'm lucky if it brings in more than 10 visitors to my website per month. I really should have known better given what I do, and what I used to do (I...

Another one here for charging 50% upfront, non-refundable. I'm usually pretty flexible on this if it's a larger project with several benchmarks etc, but only if the client requests it. In my mind, simply the act of making that "initial investment" weeds out the tirekickers, timewasters and...

I'd be up for something like this; I was always tempted by Refresh but, as you mentioned, there seemed to be a bit of a programming-heavy focus in that group, and overall since Gareth Rushgrove left to take a job down south the group seems to have just fizzled out.